so we wrote this book to document michigan's experience. it's all about the data. i cut taxes 99 times in my first term, we shrunk government more than any state in the country, cut the number of state employees by any state in the country by far. if you think those were the solutions, michigan would have the most robust economy in the nation. no, we still had the highest unemployment rate. what happened? in the end, we were able to partner with the federal government and public/private partnerships to be able to cluster development around our strengths and michigan's unemployment rate dropped six times faster than the national average. we wanted to document the evidence of that. >> and the book is that body of evidence, which is the point that you're making. and i think it's a wonderful exercise, because you're a lab experiment, in a sense, with real government in real life having real policy and real data, which is your point. and i think it's magnificent. dan, if you were to look at the writing of this book and the prosecution of this argument, how do you prosec